St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-06-11

and other drinks. 1t is, in consequence,
lar more formidable than it would be il
passed entirely upon temperance senti-
ment. There is a growing feeling, even
among the opponents, that it will pre-
vail unless an unfriendly county board
can keep it out of the ballot boxes. The
most plausible theory suggested for the
accomplishment of this is to construe
tne law TO require the names on the pc
tltions of the identical voters of last
November. In some counties, to Obvi-
ate this objection, only that class of vot-
ers are allowed to sign the papers-and
the law is indefinite enough to allow q
reluctant county board to take the mat
ter under ADJUSTMENT few months. 1t
Is doubtful, however, whether the coun-
try members will have the
nerve to resist the home pres
sure. The advocates of the meas
ure are showing practical wisdom in
attempting to meet the objection that -
close up the traffic would injure the
towns that have many saloons, by secur-
ing the statements of high officials and
others in Kansas and Iowa that-in no
case has property deprecated or there
been any check to prosperity. Some %
them In fact strongly assert the reyeE4s.
Ihey do not, however, deny that $4,000
or more of revenue to the city and
county would disappear by not licensing
saloons in Fargo.
Fargo will probably have out the band
and ovate citizen Brewer, who will
come back from the territorial COM
mandery at Huron, chief mogul of that
institution, with Citizen Rose, also high
up on his staff. They are men noted
for pulchritude and Masonic lOre-and
1t Will hardly be favorable time for the
emlssaries of the fiat state South to get
IN their work OF perSuading Fargo that
it should vote for divorce from the sec
ton that has just honored Fargo citi-
zens, and split up the Masonic and all
other territorial organizations.
1t the peripatetic and sanctified Sans,
Jones and Small, should come to Da-
kota, their pious hearts would be
wrenched over the active interest taken
by preachers and churches in the
game Of base ball. At the match games
the clergy do not open with prayer but
they fill enthusiastic seats, and the
ladies of the Congregational society
have presented the Fargo club an ele-
CANT banner, and the boys propose to
reciprOcate with a benefit for that
church. 1t will probably be given out
with the other pulpit advertisements
but will not be on Sunday.
The council has made headlong;
e,ssA'ii o. e~oPiAoie phNG1iiCHt, diiu oUiuC VI
the property owners to be assessed are
squirming.
The laying off of fifty men in the en-
ploy of the Northern Pacific railroad
here indicates that, under the new law,
other lines are eating up its business.
Fargo is putting its hands down into
its pockets to provide Fourth of July
of the rip-roaring, old-fashioned sort
big enough for the entire Red river val
ley-and nobody has thought of the dis
covery of Gen. Campbell and his echoes,
that Dakota has no business fooling with
the flag and eagle.
In view of the presence OF the division
embassy from the South it is noted that
the Argus indicates that it has always.
favored division. The Republican has
the past year or two been vociferous on
that side on the supposition that it was
making an issue with the ArguS-and
Dakota newspapers as well as politicians
are peculiar.
: Only $1,000 are wanting to insure the
college here-and Wahpeton may yet
ppt if